Bush seems to be moving towards serious support for a UN peacekeeping force in Darfur. Save Darfur Coalition hopes he is for real this time… exactly. John Bolton, US ambassador to the UN, is taking the opportunity to score some … Continue reading
The Times (London) points out that Bin Laden has gained far more from a couple of attacks and a few thousand lives lost than he could ever have hoped. Bush and Blair have made him into a major world power … Continue reading
What follows are my notes on a recent talk by Prof. Dr. Michael Bothe, Chairman of the specialized committee for humanitarian international law, German Red Cross, Chairman, German society for international law, Em. Professor Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am … Continue reading
Bristling Badger has another really interesting post from his friend at the World Social Forum in Venezuela. in the last days of the forum i finally made it to the f.s.l. (“forum social libertario” – the alternative/libertarian social forum) the … Continue reading
Roundup: NASA attempts to muzzle scientist on climate change. The UN and US continue to posture in respect of Darfur, but show no signs of real determination to Khartoum’s continuing genocide. The AU mission is failing to protect the millions … Continue reading
Reporters Without Borders (on 25 January) accused the Internet’s biggest search-engine, Google, of “hypocrisy” for its plan to launch a censured version of its product in China, meaning that the country’s Internet users would only be able to look up … Continue reading
Recent Events Echelon is a NSA communications intercept system which has hit the news again recently, in spite of the US being very coy about admitting to its existence. The main difference between it and other electronic signals intelligence systems … Continue reading
Harold Pinter had this to say about US foreign policy. It’s a worthwhile summary of 20th century history and the video is here. (Realplayer).
Some time ago I’d written to the Australian Foreign Minister to bring to his attention the situation in Darfur, and to ask him to work exert what pressure he could to bring about a stronger AU force with a better … Continue reading
Following wotw’s recent roundup of the unfolding tragedy in Sudan, here are some current developments, for the worse, unfortunately: IRIN quotes Kofi Annan on the dangerous instability in Darfur: “The frequency and intensity of the violence committed by the Sudanese … Continue reading
The same thing happened to me as Jared Diamond says happens to his students, in response to learning of the way deforestation destroyed the livelihood of the Easter Islanders – I began to wonder what situation prevented them from preserving … Continue reading
The Hobart Peace Coalition used to have an occasional newsletter, and they were archived on Writings on the wall, so I’m providing this page as a means of maintaining links to those files on the new site. The files can … Continue reading
Yahoo and Google are cooperating with Chinese authorities in their clampdown on “dissidents”, and also in their censorship of the internet. For some Microsoft has treated any attempt to create a blog with the words democracy or freedom in its … Continue reading